wanderlust- an irresistibly strong desire to travel far away and explore different places.: August 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

So close!

I AM LEAVING TOMORROW!

& I have yet to finish packing...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Whhhhyyyy am I still in the United States?

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday- all work.
Wednesday- direct service day with Macon Outreach
Thursday- Show Kacie around Diversity House.
Friday- Lunch with my AmeriCorps VISTA friends!
Saturday- leave Macon/Milledgeville/Monticello and go home.
Sunday- dinner with Grandparents. and packing
Monday- appointments! Cancel car insurance and pack
Tuesday- LEAVE.

September, October, November, December-- Live in Hungary.

Jan- May: Internship, research, graduate courses.
May- Graduate.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Lock it up right meow!

15 more daaaayyyyzzzzz till I leave for Hungary!

My parents are coming to Europe, then my cousin John and I are going to go traveling to Austria, Ben is going to come visit me (!!!) and then my brother will (hopefully) be coming to Europe as well! I love the idea of people from America coming to Europe. I know that my brother isn't necessarily coming to see me but it's still great to think that I'll see him in Europe.

I've just been packing a lot, working a lot (ughhhh) and hanging out with Ben & friends as much as I can. Sometimes what I have in life is too important or too special for me to really write about. Life is good.

Also, I love it when people say meow in converstaion or in texts.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The countdown begins...

I don't want to be that annoying person who counts down the days until she leaves...but I might have to be...LESS THAN 30 DAYS!

I'm just letting that sink in. Wow.
I know that I'm impatient a lot of the time, but I have been waiting for this moment to come over almost a year now. I got the idea (from an asshole) during the summer of last year (2009) and I was planning on leaving in January but I had to push it back to September. So I thought I was leaving in January but then I had to wait an additional 8 1/2 months.

Everything is coming together this time around. I have my ticket, my housing, my netbook, my luggage, my classes lined up, etc. I have a rough idea of where I'm going to travel to when I get to Hungary and aaaaaah I want to go right meow!

I'm finishing up my term with AmeriCorps on the 28th of August and I'm leaving for Hungary the 31st of August.

What's this all about?

I'm Lisa.

After graduating college from Georgia College and State University in the spring of 2011, I accepted a job teaching English in China. I left Atlanta, GA on September 4th, 2011 and I returned on July 9th, 2012.

After teaching English in China, I received a Fulbright Scholarship for an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) through the U.S. Department of State. My additional project while in Mongolia was researching family and cultural values. I traveled to Mongolia on August 7th, 2012 and I returned to America on June 9th, 2013.

I was accepted into the University of South Dakota's PhD program for Clinical Psychology in 2013. After 5 years, I graduated from the University of South Dakota in the summer of 2018, after completing my residency in Dayton, Ohio as a Captain in the USAF. Following that, the Air Force moved me to Texas and I became a licensed Clinical Psychologist.

I'm currently living in Abilene, Texas.

Graduate School Travels:

August 2013- August 2017

1) Roadtrip to Traverse City, Michigan (Summer, 2013).

2) Vermillion, South Dakota (Fall, 2013).

3) Atlanta, Georgia & Las Vegas, Nevada (Winter 2013).

4) Atlanta, Georgia / Coopersville, New York / Pensacola, Florida / St. Louis, Missouri (Summer 2014).

5) South Dakota, Wyoming, & Montana (Spring Break, 2015 with the Harris').

6) Parkston, South Dakota (Summer, 2015).

7) Heredia, Costa Rica (Summer, 2015)

8) Parkston, Deadwood, Lead, Spearfish, Custer, South Dakota & Wyoming (Spring Break, 2016 with my parents).

9) Colorado (Summer, 2016 with my family).

10) Residency/Internship Interviews (Jan-Feb 2017)

Tallahassee, FL

Atlanta, GA

Tuskegee, AL

Rapid City, South Dakota

11) Moved to Dayton, Ohio for my residency.

Mongolia Travels:

August 2012- June 2013

1) ъуянт, Mongolia.

2) Mungunmorit, Mongolia.

3) Stepperiders, countryside, Mongolia.

4) Beijing & Wuxi, China.

5) Seoul and Cheonan, South Korea & North Korea.

6) Arkhangai & Zavkhan provinces, Mongolia.

7) Bangkok & Koh Samet, Thailand.

China Travels:

September 2011- June 2012

1) Manila & El Nido, Philippines.

2) Kaifeng, China.

3) Beijing, China- Great Wall.

4) Tokyo, Japan.

5) Seoul, South Korea.

6) Atlanta & Milledgeville, Georgia, USA.

7) Tokyo, Japan.

8) Xi'An, China.

9) Dengfeng, China

10) Tokyo, Japan.

11) Bloom Hot Springs, Zhengzhou, China.

12) Luoyang, China.

13) Bloom Hot Springs, Zhengzhou, China.

14) Tokyo, Japan.

Hungary Travels:

August-December 2010

1) Lake Balaton, Hungary.

2) Dubrovnik & Split, Croatia.

3) Holloko & Eger, Hungary. (small villages)

4) Transylvania, Romania.

5) Budapest, Hungary with parents.

6) Salzburg, Austria with John Blayne.

7) Prague, Czech Republic.

8) Bratislava, Slovakia.

9) Venice, Italy.

10) Paris, France.

11) Munich, Germany.

12) Vienna, Austria.

13) Dresden, Germany.

14) Berlin, Germany.

Summer 2010:

Haiti- Mission Trip.

This blog is not an official Fulbright Program blog and the views expressed are my own.

wanderlust- an irresistibly strong desire to travel far away and explore different places.

Monday, August 30, 2010

So close!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Can't wait

Monday, August 16, 2010

Lock it up right meow!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The countdown begins...

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